A recently announced ceasefire deal brokered between the United States, Russia and Jordan “does not meet Israel’s unequivocal demand” that neither Iranian nor any allied forces including Hezbollah be allowed near Israel’s border, Reuters reported Sunday. Israel’s regional cooperation minister, Tzachi Hanegbi said that the deal “does not meet Israel’s...

Defenders of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as the Iran nuclear deal is known, have argued that Iran’s aggression was intentionally not addressed by the deal. For example this week, Federica Moghereni, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy said, “The Iran deal has been...

A missile that was shot down last week as it approached Saudi Arabia’s King Khalid International Airport had Iranian “markings,” the top United States Air Force official said, supporting Saudi charges, the Associated Press reported Thursday. “There have been Iranian markings on those missiles,” Lt. Gen. Jeffrey L. Harrigian, who commands the Air...

Speaking about Saturday’s resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani blasted Saudi Arabia for what he called its “unprecedented” meddling in Lebanese politics, charging that it had forced Hariri to step down, Iran’s semi-official PressTV news reported Wednesday. In remarks directed at Saudi Arabia at a...

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), recently designated in its entirety as a terrorist organization by the United States Treasury Department, has arrested at least 30 dual nationals over the past two years, twice as many as earlier reported. According to accounts of lawyers, diplomats and relatives, most individuals are being...

Saad Hariri’s resignation as prime minister of Lebanon and his denunciation of Iran and its client, Hezbollah, for coming “to control the seams of the state and has the final and decisive say in the affairs of Lebanon and the Lebanese,” was an acknowledgment that “Lebanon is an Iranian satrapy run by...